May 23, 2019As the election results were announced, the war of words among politicians may have ended but the war of words among their supporters on social media continued. As soon as the exit poll results were out, several youngsters and people who had criticised the government decided to deactivate their social media accounts as they were aware that memes, trolls and abuses might be hurled at them.

May 23, 2019In an effort to ensure accountability, the city corporation has come out with the draft of a ‘checklist’ it says every junior engineer, assistant engineer and executive engineer will have to follow while taking up a road project

May 20, 2019Greater Chennai Corporation has created three new resource recovery centres as pilot projects in Anna Nagar area and has also set up small composting pits in almost all the 600 city parks in order to stop sending wet waste to landfills

May 17, 2019K Gopalakrishnan, a resident of Telephone Nagar in Perungudi, did not have water to bathe on Wednesday. The Metrowater lorry he had booked a week ago did not arrive and the private supplier told him that due to high demand, supply would not be possible till Thursday. With money in his wallet but no water in the sump, Gopalakrishnan sent his wife and daughter to a relative’s house. His tenants has also vacated the house for a month.

May 16, 2019 “God is in his Heaven – All’s right with the world!” is an oft-quoted, misquoted, line from a Victorian poet, Robert Browning if you care. But this could well be the tag line of Metrowater too. Confused? Read on.

May 14, 2019To remove middlemen and ensure people living in narrow lanes, where its tankers can’t go, get water right in front of their homes, Metrowater engineers have come up with a homegrown solution. They are connecting hosepipes, often 200 feet long, to the water lorries and then laying them down narrow alleys where they are connected to T-shaped pipes set up at regular intervals for people to draw water directly.